Don't Tell Me You Love Me

I Love You. What is that? ... To love someone. I love my parents. I appreciate all they've done for me and my sister. I love my sister , i don't want any boy to break her heart. I love my friends. I love my brothers. But it dosen't take a rocket scientist to realize that those are all different kinds of love.

Many people say that the word Love is used to much or just thrown around these days. I'm not sold on that idea. We have an amazing capacity to love one another. I don't think love is used to much. but i do think its used improperly.

What if i told you that Love is a verb. chew on that. how often do we forget that. we treat love like a thing. and unfortunatly love gets generalized. When Love is used as a noun it loses a lot of depth (love is meant to be deep). Now love as a verb on the other hand. that is a whole different story.

If love is a verb... an action word... then we have to show love. Instead of saying i love you to mom, dad, sister, brother, friends, etc. and having little distinction between the kinds of love those are we should show love.

If we show love then you get to experience love at its fullest. Its no longer a thing.. its an experience. you start to feel that all love is not the same. it is verry different. You start to see love in all its depth. like the ocean. When you learn the little things that people around you appreciate you get a world of oppertunities to show them you love them. I know that a simple txt message saying happy birthday from an old friend has made me feel cared for. little things like that show eachother love.

Saying i love you is not a bad thing. But it requires action. Its simply not enough just to say it. God loves us. Jesus loves us. It can become so cliche... so empty when all it is is a bunch of words. But when action backs those words its a whole different story.

John 3:16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

Now thats love. God dosen't just say i love you. He showed us his love. He lowered him self to our level.. and then died for us. A terrible death. a death on a cross. God told his children I Love You. then he proved it. God knows that love is a verb. Thats the kind of love that changed the world.

My prayer is that we can love eachother the way God intended us to love eachother. With self sacrifice and action. I hope that we can stop with the empty I Love Yous. and start loving the people in our lives in a way that dosen't require words. Love in a way that you can't easily describe it to others, because its so personal and close to your heart that you would have to know you to understand. Our God loves us with action. Let us love one another in the same fashion.